How to Set Up a Slack Alert of Updating Errors From Your Displayr Account

You can hook up your Displayr account to Slack to report on R-based updating errors. This is useful when you have R-based items that update automatically because you will not see whether or not they ran successfully. This article describes how to connect Displayr to the Slack app to create a daily summary alert of all outstanding R object updating errors. The message summarizes the number of errors that are outstanding and provides a link to the status page.

You'll see this in Slack:

and the link will send you to the Scheduled R Updating status page on your Displayr account where you can review auto-updated R-based items with errors:

Requirements

A paid Displayr license with time purchased for Server time for private dashboards and API (also known as View Hours).
A Document that uses one of the methods from How to Automatically Update Calculations, Variables, and Data Sets Using R.

Method

Create an incoming webhook in Slack using the following link and inserting your slack name where prompted: https://yourslacknamehere.slack.com/apps/new/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks. For example, our full link is: https://displayr.slack.com/apps/new/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks
Select the channel where you'd like the errors to show up in the Post to Channel dropdown (or click create a new channel).
Click Add Incoming Webhooks Integration do not close this tab. Note, you don't need to set a username or icon because Displayr will override these settings.
In a separate tab, log into Displayr and go to the Profile icon > Account Settings > Settings.
Ensure the account is set up as a multi-user company by ensuring the blue button a the bottom of the page says Revert to single user company. If it says Expand Company name, then click it to make it multi-user.
Scroll to the Webhooks table at the bottom and click New Webhook.
Copy the Webhook URL from the Incoming Webhooks Integration tab, in Step 3, into the URL field and ensure Kind is set to R update failures to Slack (aggregating).
Click Save.